1、大学英语四级（ 2013年 12月考试改革适用）模拟试卷 33及答案与解析 一、 Part I Writing 1 For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay entitled The Harm of PC Games. You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words according to the outline given below in Chinese. Write your essay on Answer Sheet 1. 1很多
2、学生迷恋电脑游戏； 2电脑游戏的危害； 3你的观点。 Section A （ A） No. He has to finish his homework. （ B） No. He doesnt like going to the club. （ C） Yes. Hell go after he finished his homework. （ D） Yes. Hell write his paper after he returns. （ A） At a newsstand. （ B） At a car dealers. （ C） At a publishing house. （ D） At a
3、 newspaper office. （ A） A movie. （ B） A lecture. （ C） A play. （ D） A speech. （ A） Having a break. （ B） Continuing the meeting. （ C） Moving on to the next item. （ D） Waiting a little longer. （ A） At a library. （ B） In a bus. （ C） At the airport. （ D） At a post office. （ A） The man wants to go to San
4、Francisco. （ B） There are no flights to Los Angeles for the rest of the day. （ C） There are two direct flights to Los Angeles within the next two hours. （ D） If the man boards the plane to Los Angeles now, he will have to transfer at San Francisco. （ A） Shop assistant. （ B） A telephone operator. （ C
5、） A waitress. （ D） A clerk. （ A） If the game is held there the team will lose. （ B） If the game is held there the team will win. （ C） It makes no difference since the team will lose. （ D） It makes no difference since the team will win. （ A） He will return to his hometown. （ B） He will play tennis. （
6、 C） He will join the woman for dinner. （ D） He will go to a coffee shop with the woman. （ A） Because she doesnt drink coffee. （ B） Because she has a plane to catch. （ C） Because she has to go to a lesson. （ D） Because she doesnt like the man. （ A） He will postpone the trip. （ B） He will marry the wo
7、man. （ C） He will cook dinner for the woman. （ D） He will take tennis lessons. （ A） He wants the woman to pay for the insurance. （ B） He wants to get some insurance for the content of his home. （ C） He wants to pay for the insurance. （ D） He wants to ask for his own insurance. （ A） His apartment. （
8、B） A fridge and a stereo system. （ C） His friends fridge. （ D） His friends stereo system. （ A） Fridge and Stereo system. （ B） Watches. （ C） CD and books. （ D） Television. （ A） $ 184.00 for a twelve-month period. （ B） $ 184.00 for a twenty-month period. （ C） $ 184.00 for a six-month period. （ D） $ 18
9、.40 for a twelve-month period. Section B （ A） To measure the movement of waves in the ocean. （ B） To determine whether the Earths temperature is going up. （ C） To study the behavior of some sea animals. （ D） To measure the depths of the ocean. （ A） To attract more sea animals to the testing site. （
10、B） To drive dangerous sea animals away from the testing site. （ C） To help trace the sea animals being tested. （ D） To determine how sea animals communicate with each other. （ A） They were frightened and distressed. （ B） They swam away when the speaker was turned on. （ C） They swam closer to “examin
11、e“ the speaker when it was turned off. （ D） They didnt seem to be frightened and kept swimming near the speaker. （ A） The performance required for a certain job. （ B） The required behavior, knowledge and skills. （ C） The training contents and methods required. （ D） The costs and the quality of the p
12、rogramme. （ A） The difference between a job description and job specification. （ B） The difference between what is taught, and how it is taught. （ C） The difference between the costs and the quality of the programme. （ D） The difference between the training contents and methods required. （ A） The tr
13、aining methods and the quality of the training staff. （ B） The performance of the trainees in the programme. （ C） The places where the training programmes take place. （ D） The way to evaluate the training programme. （ A） It means the year you take off and youll continue school with enough money. （ B
14、） It means the year you have off between high school and college. （ C） It means the year you have off during your college life. （ D） It means the year you take off before high school. （ A） Because they want to travel to broaden their horizon. （ B） Because they want to explore what they are intereste
15、d in. （ C） Because they need to go back to serve military duty. （ D） Because they need to recover after twelve years of required education. （ A） They worry that their children will miss their friends. （ B） They are worried about their childrens safety when traveling. （ C） They worry that their child
16、ren cannot find their real interest. （ D） They worry that their children will choose not to go to college. （ A） It helps students explore their hobbies. （ B） It provides students with opportunities to do field practice. （ C） It offers position to students in her company. （ D） It aims to help student
17、s plan the year they take off. Section C 26 Why does cream go bad faster than butter? Some researchers think that it comes down to the structure of the food, not its chemical composition a finding that could help rid some processed foods of chemical preservatives. Cream and butter contain much【 B1】
18、_, so why cream should sour much faster has been a 【 B2】 _. Both are emulsions tiny globules of one liquid evenly【 B3】 _throughout another. The difference lies in whats in the globules and whats in the surrounding. In cream, fatty globules 【 B4】 _ in a sea of water. In butter, globules of a watery【
19、B5】 _are locked away in a sea of fat. The bacteria which make the food go bad prefer to live in the watery regions of the【 B6】 _. This means that in cream, the bacteria are free to grow throughout the mixture. When the situation is 【 B7】 _, the bacteria are locked away in【 B8】 _buried deep in the se
20、a of fat. Trapped in this way,【 B9】 _colonies cannot spread and rapidly run out of nutrients. They also slowly poison themselves with their waste products. In butter, there is a self-limiting system which stops the bacteria growing. The researchers are already working with food companies keen to see
21、 if their products can be made【 B10】 _bacterial attack through alterations to the foods structure. They believe that it will be possible to make the emulsions used in salad cream, for instance, more like that in butter. The key will be to do this while keeping the salad cream liquid and not turning
22、it into a solid lump. 27 【 B1】 28 【 B2】 29 【 B3】 30 【 B4】 31 【 B5】 32 【 B6】 33 【 B7】 34 【 B8】 35 【 B9】 36 【 B10】 Section A 36 Videoconferencing is nothing more than a television set or PC monitor with a camera. Through the video conferencing, not only your voice but also your face, the surroundings
23、and any other graphic and physical【 C1】 _can be captured and transmitted through the communication system with or without wires. Of course, when you go into the details, the technology involved is very【 C2】 _ and the subject matter littered with jargon. Such as ISDN(Integrated Services Digital Netwo
24、rk), POTS (Plain Old Telephone Service)or the【 C3】 _behind bandwidth, latency and is ochrony which are used to explain how videoconferencing works. Good people communication is【 C4】 _in any business, and the more interaction you can achieve, the more likely it is that your【 C5】 _ will be the right o
25、nes. Videoconferencing not only allows you to speak to people in different locations, but also note【 C6】 _expressions and gestures that let you know what the other person is really thinking. Meetings are made more【 C7】 _ by sharing documents and computer applications that a simple telephone cannot【
26、C8】 _.【 C9】 _, organizations are discovering the competitive advantages and the power of videoconferencing. With advances in performance, economical pricing, the ability to 【 C10】 _ essential meeting tools and connectivity to global telephone networks and standardized videoconferencing protocols, vi
27、deoconferencing is now a practical reality for any organization. A)Fortunately B)effective C)images D)articulate E)facial F)manage G)decisions H)connect I)advanced J)integrate K)progressive L)concepts M)pictures N)Increasingly O)important 37 【 C1】 38 【 C2】 39 【 C3】 40 【 C4】 41 【 C5】 42 【 C6】 43 【 C7
28、】 44 【 C8】 45 【 C9】 46 【 C10】 Section B 46 How to Use a Library A)Youre driving your car home from work or school. And something goes wrong. The engine stalls out at lights, holds back as you go to pass. It needs a tune-up and soon. Where do you go? The library. You can take out an auto repair manua
29、l that tells step-by-step how to tune up your make and model. Or your tennis game has fallen off. Youve lost your touch at the net. Where do you go? The library for a few books on improving your tennis form. B)“The library!“ you say. “Thats where my teacher sends me to do ugh home work. “Unfortunate
30、ly, Ive found thats exactly the way many people feel. If youre among them, youre denying yourself the easiest way to improve yourself, enjoy yourself and even cope with life. My first suggestion for making the most of your library is to do what I did, read and read and read. For pleasure and for und
31、erstanding. C)If its TV that keeps you from cultivating this delicious habit, I can offer a sure remedy. Take home from the library a stack of books that might look interesting. Pile them on the TV set. Next time you are tempted to turn on a program you really dont want to see, reach for a book inst
32、ead. D)Over the years, people collect a mental list of books they mean to read. If you dont have such a list, here is the suggestion. Take from the library some of the books you might have enjoyed dramatized on TV, like Remargues All Quiet on the Western Front, Clavells Shogun, Tolkiens The Hobbit,
33、or Victor Hugos Les Mise Rabies. If you like what you read, you can follow up with other satisfying books by the same authors. E)Some people in their reading limit themselves to current talked-about best sellers. Oh, what they miss! The library is full of yesterdays best sellers; and they still make
34、 compelling reading today. Some that Ive enjoyed: A. B. Guthries The Big Sky, Carl Van Dorens Benjamin Franklin, Mari Sandozs Old Jules, and Norman Mailers The Naked and the Dead. F)How do you find these or any other books youre looking for? Its easy with the card catalog. Every time I go to the lib
35、rary and I go more than once a week I invariably make a beeline to the card catalog before anything else. Its the nucleus of any public library. The card catalog lists every book in the library by: 1. author; 2. title; 3. subject. Lets pick an interesting subject to look up. I have always been fasci
36、nated by astronomy. Youll be surprised at the wealth of material you will find under “astronomy“ to draw upon. And the absorbing books you didnt know existed on it. CAUTION: Always have a pencil and paper when you use the card catalog. G)Once you jot down the numbers of the books you are interested
37、in, you are ready to find them on the shelves. Libraries call the shelves “the stacks“. In many smaller libraries, which youll be using, the stacks will be open for you to browse. To me there is a special thrill in tracking down the books I want in the stacks! For invariably, I find books about whic
38、h I knew nothing, and these often turn out to be the very ones I need. You will find the same thing happening to you when you start to browse in the stacks. “A learned mind is the end product of browsing.“CAUTION: If you take a book from the stacks to your work desk, do not try to return it to its p
39、roper place. Thats work for the experts. If you replace it incorrectly, the next seeker wont be able to find it. H)Some of the brightest and best-informed men and women in America are the librarians who specialize in providing reference help. Introduce yourself. State your problem. And be amazed at
40、how much help you will receive. CAUTION: Dont waste the time of this expert by asking silly questions you ought to solve yourself. Save the reference librarian for the really big ones. I)You should also learn to use the Reader s Guide to Periodical Literature .This green-bound index is one of the mo
41、st useful items in any library. It indexes all the articles in the major magazines, including newspaper magazine supplements. Thus it provides a guide to the very latest expert information of any subject that interests you. So if you want to do a really first-class job, find out which magazines your
42、 library subscribes to, then consult the Reader s Guide and track down recent articles on your subject. When you use this wonderful tool effectively, you show the mark of a real scholar. J)Since you can take most books home, but not magazines, take full notes when using the latter. Many libraries to
43、day provide a reprographic machine that can quickly copy pages you need from magazines and books. Ask about it. If you are working on a project of some size which will require repeated library visits, keep a small notebook in which you record the identification numbers of the books you will be using
44、 frequently. This will save you valuable time, because you wont have to consult the card catalog or search aimlessly through the stacks each time you visit for material you seek. Some of the very best books in any library are the reference books, which may not be taken home. Learn what topics they c
45、over and how best to use them, for these books are wonderful repositories(储藏室、资料库 )of human knowledge. K)Your library can give you help on any subject. It can even be your business and legal advisor. How many times have you scratched your head over how to get a tax rebate(折扣 )on your summer job? You
46、ll find guides to that. Want to defend yourself in traffic court? Find out how in legal books at the library. L)Library Projects Can Be Fun and Rewarding. Here are a few ideas: 1. What are your roots? Trace your ancestors. Many libraries specialize in genealogy. 2. Did George Washington sleep nearby
47、? Or Billy the Kid? Your librarys collection of local history books can put you on the trail. 3. Cook a Polynesian feast. Or an ancient Roman banquet. Read how in the librarys cook books. 4. Take up photography. Check the library for consumer reviews of cameras before you buy. Take out books on ligh
48、ting, composition, or darkroom techniques or you name it! M)If you havent detected by now my enthusiasm for libraries, let me offer two personal notes. Im particularly pleased that in recent years two beautiful libraries have been named after me: a small community library in Quakertown, Pennsylvania
49、, and the huge research library located at the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley. And I like libraries so much that 1 married a librarian. 47 The nucleus of any public library is the card catalog. 48 Yesterdays best sellers are still good for reading, which shouldnt be overlooked. 49 The author suggests that people should go to the library for answers when things go wrong. 50 The Readers Guid
